Writing and illustration on mental health by and for the comedy industry

By Katy Koren. It’s been a rollercoaster of a few weeks (how many times have you heard that phrase recently, along with ‘unprecedented’,...

By Rich Wilson. Illustrated by Michael Julings. It was all going so well wasn’t it. Wasn’t it? We had plans, we had jobs and we could...

By Pope Lonergan. Illustrated by Jimmy Slim. I’m self-isolating with my parents. My Mum is 5ft 6” and unapologetically bolshy. The kind...

By Jenny Collier. Illustrated by Hannah Eachus. Since this is a global catastrophe, and we are putting our collective livelihoods,...

By Joz Norris. Not gonna lie – lockdown has, predictably enough, been a fairly lonely experience so far. And yet I’m finding, bit by...

By Rachael Healy. Illustrated by Ella Mclean. On the Sunday night before the government announced lockdown, my brain decided to...

Written & illustrated by Idil Sukan. I peel the banana and I mush the banana and I pour sugar on the banana and I stir the banana and I...

Or 48 Hours In The Dark Room is Easier Than 36 Hours On-Call For the NHS By John Robertson. I think it was about 40 hours into the show...

By Martin Willis. If you, like the subject of this article, identify as a ‘big old comedy nerd’, then you’ve probably been aware of...

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